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THE CLINTON . MS -RECORD
WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
'silo You Remember What Happened During The Last
Decade Of The Old Century?
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Schoenhals, J. Dayment. Referee
Harry Twitchell.
FEBRUARY 1, 1900 I The town council en Monday even -
As the congregation of Willis ing appointed its officers for the en-
chureb were gathering for service suing year. No change was made
last Sunday morning fire was dis- except for the cemetery' superintend-
eevered in the basement by the care- enc, that positioar being .given .td Mr.
taker, Mr. Murray. The alarm was J, W. Shobbrook. : Tlie membership'
at once given and the fire brigade;of the fire brigade remains as before
turned out quickly. The flames, which that is: Hurry Bartliff is chief, .1. H.
originated from the furnace pipe, had' Kerr, caW in, Jones. Finch, Ii'euten-
in the meantime worked in under the ant, Harry Glazier, secretary, and H.
eflcor and platform 'upon which the'•MeBrien, Elmer Finch, Win. Wheat -
pulpit and organ stand and were ley, N. Kennedy, Luke Lawson, Harry
difficult to reach. The insurance Fremlin, Murray McEwen, W. Coats,
companies have agreed to pay $263' Bert Fremlin, Alex Cudmore, J. E.
for damage ' which reI Johnstone W. Kennedy.
dy•
Early in the afternoon a second) The annual "meeting of the Huron
fire broke out, this time in the back , County Live Stock Society was held
shed of Mrs. Tebbutt's house in the in the town hall on Saturday after -
rear of Willis church. The brigade noon. Treasurer A. J. Tyndall report-
soon drowned out the fire and a fewer a balance on hand of $130. The.
dollars will repair the damage. The following officers were elected: Pre.
• fire broke out again in the evening sident, John Shanahan, Vice, George
but was quickly extinguished. The Hoare, Treas. A. J. Tyndall, Secretary
fire originated in the ash barrel.- A. J. McMurray, Executive: Oliver
Mr, Alex Morris has rented the Johnson, Thomas Coleman, William
cottage on Wellington street lately Binn, David Cantelon. All the old
occupied by Mr. W. Baer.
Messrs James .Stevens of the. Base
Line, Samuel Sloan of Goderich and
Hugh McQuarrie of Blyth have been
re -appointed license commissioners
for West Huron.
The Huron poultry show is being
held in Seaforth this week. The ex-
hibitors from Clinton are: W. Doherty
G. Swallow, A. 3. Grigg, Ted Forrest-
er and Newton Davies.
Mr. John Stanbury of the London
Road who is wintering in California
is now at Ontario and is stopping
with Mr. John Joy, formerly of
Clinton.
Mr. D. A. Forrester shipped four
carloads of dressed flax to Andover,
Mass., last week, which cleans out his
stock. We understand he may sell
the mill. If he does the parties who
are now negotiating for it will re-
move the building and convert it into
a barn.
About -two o'clock yesterday after-
noon Mr. Charles Carline had a stroke
of paralysis and as we go to press
is in a dangerous condition.
Mr. Will Stobie, who was in the
employ of Mr. Jas. McClaehertY as
baker for some months, has gone
to Woodstock where he has secured
a situation.
Mr. Thos Gale of London was the
guest this week of his cousin, Mr. J.
P. Tisdall. Several years ago Mr,
Gale was a member of the private
banking firm of Johnstone, Tisdall
and Gale doing business in Clinton,
but is now inspector for the London
and Lancashire Fire Insurance Comp-
any.
Dave Hearn, who has been a stud-
ent of the Collegiate Institute for a
couple of years and made his home
at his sister's, Mrs, Bert Potts, left
for his home in Corinne, Mich, on
Saturday,
directors were reappointed.
CHURCH DIRECTORY
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor
2.30 p.m.—Sunday School /
7 p.m.—Evening Worship
The Young People meet each
Monday evening at • 8 p.m.
When The Present Century
Was Young
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD,
FEBRUARY 4, 1915
Mr. John Cuninghame, who. a fort-
night ago resigned the position of
secretary of the Model School board,
fust became connected with the board
in 1881 being elected that year to
represent St. George's ward and he
was immediately appointed' to the
managing committee. J. H. Combe
was chairman and W. H. Hine was
secretary -treasures. The staff at that
time consisted of Mr. Taylor, Miss
McCullough, Miss Ferguson, Miss
Field, Miss Rogers, Miss Corbett and
Miss Callander. The salaries ranged
from $800 for the principal to ,$260
for Miss Corbett.
Among those "serving as chairman
of the School Board during the eight-
ies and nineties were such well-known
citizens as George E. Pay, Dr. Will-
iams, John Cuninghanie, J. C. Stev-
enson, J. B. Hoover, W. 5, Harland,
J. W. Irwin and Dr. Agnew.
The train due lire from the east
at eleven -fifteen ran into a snowdrift
about two and a half miles east of
Seaforth and the engine was thrown
from the track and the passenger
coaches pretty well shaken up. The
engineer and fireman were both.
scalded, the former pretty severely,
Nome of the passengers were injured.
Major McTaggart and Messrs W. B.
Counter and J. E. Cantelon were a-
mong the passengers. Owing to :the
storm which raged all Monday night
and Tuesday and to .the fact that the
wrecking crews were busy up north,.
the track was not cleared and no
trains want through here until yest-
erday.
The Ladies hockey team of St.
Paul's church met the ladies of Willis
church in a friendly match Tuesday
evening. The result wasa win for
the foitmer in a more of 2-0. The
players for Willis church were: B.
Watts, M. Cantelon, G. Cook, R. Gran -
lis, M. Forbes, E.MeKenzie, M. Me-
Taggart. — St Paul's: N. Bramfield,
I. Bawden, S. Bowden, S. Copp, M.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. A. H. O'Neil, E A., B.D.
2.30 pm,—Sunday School.
11 a.m. Morning Prayer.
7 p.m.—Evening Prayer.
THE SALVATION ARMY
Capt. McDowell
11 a.m.—Worship Service
3 p.m.—Sunday School
7 p.m.—Evening Worship
ONTARIO STREET i7NITED
Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D.
2.30 p.m.—Sunday School.
11 a,m.—Divine Worship
9.30 a.m. Turner's Church Ser•
vice and Sunday School
7 p.m. Evening Worship
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.D.
Animals and War
By
HILLIARD FOLEY
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Our Dumb Animals
it Was Not A Bomb
Just a Bit of Gas that. Caused All
the Commotion
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America to find surroundings and
climate to their liking. The 'birds'
from north and central regions wint-
er chiefly 'in the upper portion of the
state. Among the teeming swamps
oe the southern orti oru aro
and tropic p
by JOHN C. ICIR'KWOOla 1 found the native birds of brilliant
i5t, ■.W.'.y'Ve •'''' '.."d'. •V'''' °.'.�.Yre'.•.�.Y •We''; .•1S5r.Pr" coloring and trailing plumage that
• A roaring sound was followed clas- We are characteristic of tropical birds.
A. Writer who frequently visited the ely by two suppressed coal gas ex- Here's a weird 'stery. Dr. Lawrence, of the fast European conquest in the From the far Arctic arrive at the
trenches in the last World War speaks plosionsW. Smith co -inventor of the frozen United States. The Centennial will beginning the sand -
e
in'the Court House late Sat- W. � be mnrng of the winter
emotional) of the battalions, of train- urday afternoon which nearly wreck- sleep" treatment for cancer, believes be celebrated in each of these three piper, and the plovers, the gulls
yed the furnace, temporarily knocked that many years ago, by methods now , states with pagants, fiesta's, rodeos, and terns, the starlings and meadow-
ed
eadow
ed dogs used in that shambles. In not known, old ee le in Vermont Indian dances and folk festivals. larks. But the bluejay scoria Florida
out Caretaker George James, and p P j y
cha
s
County k' J. M. Roberts slept through the- winter months tol It was in 1540 that Don Francisco Along the coasts and near the inland,
outof his officeCwhen the second ex- save food! Dr. Smith says that itlVasquezde Coronado left Mexico to waterways of Florida the waterfowl'
plosion blew' a hole in the chimney was the custom, because of food scar -'ride north into the wilderness in a from farthest north gather,
where it passes through the 'Clerk's city, " to have old and infirm people purpose to extend the Spanish ernpire,'{ I. --_.-.--
office. put tie sleep in' the winter, to bel The Centennial will not only, celc- You read often about the blue,
The basement, Clerk's office and • aetakened in the spring.'' Take the' brace the early colonization on the the yellow and the white books issued
hallowedhalls of •the old Court'Houete story or leave it, but remember thatsouthwest "by the conquistadores, but by governments, and you may have
were filled with thick black coal' soot a "mien . of some eminence voubhes for also will include many of the dram- wondered why these official publicat-
The wooden girders •above the furnace the truth of the story. i skit events that have taken place ions are described by colour names.
took fire and were' -burning smartly1 But why confine freezing only tosince. The legends of Kit Carson and Well, here's information. Originally
when Caretaker James; groggy, about old and infirm people+? ' All of us i the coming of the first white=hooded special official publications received
to turn in a fire 'alarm; . chaicged `•his wouldlike to freeze, for more 'than wagons along the Santa Fe trail will their names because they were really
Mind and put out the blaze' with a the winter months, a goodmany peo- be reveeed. bounds in blue, white, yellow or other
the hearts of all dog lovers such
emotion always finds a responsive
chord. 'One wonders,: however, how
many of us gave •sufficiently deep
thought to the efforts of war on other
aninials besides dogs,and whether
there is anything we can do about it.
Whence, for instance, that grisly,
name, "Dead Horse Corner?" How
many noble beasts were sacrificed
there? Were they killed instantly
and without pain,, or did they die
with great suffering? The truth; if
written, would make very repellent
reading Mid who recalls the • blind
swans at White Swan Chateau.? And
the tame Gold Fish at Court Dieeves?
11 a.m.—Divine Worship
7 p.m,—Evening Warship.
Sunday School at conclusion of
morning service.
garden hose: ' pie known to us. We would not be
The cause of all this cbinmotion was' consigning them 'to the hot regions=
learned • lated. The steady chimney, which is 'supposed to be a"very dread -
And the geese testing for gas in No downdraft caused by the ' gale that ful sin.
Man's Land, What of that carrier was raging• blew' closed the 'rear draft
pigeon "Poor wounded :dove with f the'furnace after'a fresh fire had Back. in 1620 --aver 300 years ago It w
ted
colour paper. But nowadays the title
I have been'reading about an el -
colour
not always agree with the actual
leged error of Jeffrey Farnol, roman- colour of the cover of the book. Thins
tic novelist, who said something about the Yellow books issued by the French
3-shillins nieces in one of his books. Foreign Ministry may be bound in
o s 'd b That Britain gray; or white, or some other colour,
pinion broken?" In the present war, been built, thus trapping the coal gas --a fountain pen had been raven
s said
y some in addition to yellow. •
coined 3�shilling pieces; yet
whon read calmlyof thepigs.ex- causingP penrecently in a neverBritish publications are called Blue
fumes and the explosion. The This was shown __ rne _ -e ,.__-.,,_,,ti_ -„_- -,, t
P
blipg the land mines between•the first bustive blast blew open the loan exhibition of old sliver at Sea
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Gordon Peddie, B.A. ,
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service 11 a.m.
3 p.m. Worship Service at Bayfield
2 p.m.—Sunday School. Bayfield.
opposing lines?
Here is an eye -witness account by
J. It. Peeheral, writing in the Toronto
Star Weekly, of the elephants' part
in Ethiopia. "The planes came back.
tour that in Dickens' day,there were Books; those of Germany Nhite
furriece' door, blew off two layers of ford House, London. Part of the proveurrent 3-skiilin ieces• In view of Books; of Italy Green Books; of Spain
bricks that encased the furnace, ' catalogue description is as follows: g P. Red Books; of Belgium Gray Books;
cracked the top of the boiler
from: "In its sinal) compass are an inkwell,' this bit of reading I was caught by of Portugal White Books; of Japan
end to end and blew the dome off the' a quill, seal and knife. It was the an 'article which told of $3 gold
pieces as minted by the United States. Gray Books.
top. The second blast picked a weak'vade mecum of that Homeric char -;They were first minted in 1854. In
-thClk hn Lesl•the f
I was sneaking off to an over -hang- spot in the chamn " ' ie ighting hashop •
ey in e ers atter Jo
1875only20 recon were coined and
Mg rock when Kerville" (the Galla office, dislodged p
a couple of bricks of Clogher (1571-1671), who played_
Chief) "caught ree by the arm. 'Come and punched a hole through the pleat -Ian important part for the King dur- ' i
m
age was discontinued lin 1890. It Beauty From Ugliness
This
quickly with me' he shouted and led er, out of which black soot shot as ing the rebellion."
CLINTON MISSION
W. J. Cowherd, Supt.
Services:
Monday 8 p.m, Young People
Thursday 8 p.m. Prayer Meeting
Sundays
11 ra.nr, Prophetic Studies
2 p.m. Sunday School.
3 p.m. Fellowship Meeting
8 p.m. Evangelistic Service.
me up to the top of the mountain. it does out of the airplane of an aerial
was the only coin that did not fit
sky writer. Treasurer A H. Erskine, into the decianaY system, and so waAs soon s
One word explained his strategy. Gas made - The memory of Andrew Jackson, unsatisfactory.
the nth d f the corridor where -iahth. president of the United Stakes, l .
their gas V and
immense to
nd had flown away, an eine en o has been celebrated by'good Demo-'
mutt rose in the depths the soot screen was thinnest. crate 'some of whom paid' $100 for 1 Here an item for stamp lavers. On'
40 rt into
of the valley.
'It was the elephants. They were
underneath us by the dozen, and the
hyperite gas drove them mad. Shieek
ing with rage and pain, falling down
and rising again with a mighty effort,
they rushed on like .a hurricane."
God's creatures! Their fate seems
Caretaker James was peeking the food they ate at the memorial January 10th 18 was pa
through the holes in the furnace door feet in Great Britain a postage rate
banquet. Jackson liked good food. ,
to see how the fire was coming along Here, for example, is the fare pia of 1 penny per /z oz. About four
when the- first explosion occurred. months later appeared the world's
vided by Mm for a `small dinner party
There were no blue flames. All was first adhesive postage stamps descrie•f
in 11334: A thick soup and a clear
black, George seratched' his head, in! soup; wild turkey dressed with brains;ed
by Rowland Hill, the originator of
thoughtful pose. Something was :fish; cold chicken interlarded with the postage stamp idea and practice,
wrong. Then came the blast. Ther as neing "a bit of paper covered at
sliced tongue and garnished with
as pitiful as our helplessness to pre- furnace door shot open and set salad; duck and celery; partridge with the back with a glutinous wash,
vent it. Yet we can do something. George back on a chair seven feet sweetbreads; pheasant; Virginia ham; which, by applying a little moisture,
We can make their sufferinga vicar- away as nice as you please. He was, jelly and tarts; blanc znange and might be attached to the letter:' That
ious benefit through our mercy and so black he was ready to take his meringues; preserves; ice cream; first stamp, the classic "Black Penn",
love to others of their kind, whether place as an end man in a minstrel grapes and oranges.And to wash
showed the profile of the youthful
.
in Ethiopia or in Massachusetts. In -show. He was flabbergasted and daz- down the good fare were sherry and Queen Victoria.
deed this vicarious benefit has al -ed' too. He turned to the stairway to tort; madeira, champagne, claret and The centenary of the adhesive post -
ready revealed itself in the building! ring in an alarm, then changed his cherry brandy. And, at the end, cof- age stamp has been or will be cele -
of special dog hospitals by ex -soldiers mind; turned around and grabbed the fee and brandy. Muted, variously, by many goeisrne
who had witnessed the dog's part in hose to extinguish the fire that was The story is told of the occasion meats.
when Harvard Univiersity conferred
• It was 5.15 pan. Saturday when all an honorary degree on "0 -Id Hickory",! About 78,000,000 automobiles have
of the front line in which the dog- the fuss started. It was about the the address being in Latin, When been made in North America since
lover in both friend and 'enemy rises same hear on Sunday when repairs Jackson replied he inserted some the opening of the current century;
above the soldier. It concerns a little had been made and a fire again start- Latin in has reply — "E n1 el) a only 4,192 cars have been made in the
the war burning in the rafters.
We conclude with a pretty incident)
white terrier that had been running
about in Na Man's Land. For sev-
eral days we had been trying to cape
ture the little fellow, believing that
he was carrying messages for the
enemy. The Germans, too, were after
him it seemed; they, suspecting him
of doing spy work for us. Yet no
rifle was leveled upon him from
ed in ye ancient Court House.—God- unum" and "Sine qua non", by way United States in the previous twenty
erich Signal -Star. of illustration! years. In 1939, approximately 3,710,-
000 cars were built. All told about
82,000,000 cars have been built since
When I was a lad 65 or so years 1880.
ago, I read avidly all tales that I
could get my hands on dealing with. That unanswerable question, Where
Indians and the Plains, and the ad- do flies go in the winter time?, is
•t ' d 'll of Peru ventures of fur -traders and fur -hunt -mostly a witticism. But the question,
HOUSES
Old and New
n ancien rume yr ages
either trench, nor was any attempt lieu es have been Lound :ulnen extend els and trappers. And so, under- Where do the birds go in winter
made to poison him. Later, it trans- s standably, I should like much to go time?, is answerable. Many birds are
pired that he was merely a civilian two stories underground. to Coronado Cuarto Centennial, a quite civilized—they go, m do so
dog. that had got lost out there some- Giant ant -hills attaining a height festival and pageant te take place in many human beings, to Florida. Igor -
how and was too fearful of the queer of over 30 feet are often taken over the three southwestern states of New ida is a varied land of woods, marsh -
being that hemmed him in to come by the natives of the Belgian Congo Mexico, Arizona and Texas, and de - des, seashore, and of varying climate
close to either one or the other. How as homes, after driving out the white signed to mark 'the 400th aniversary :and so enable most birds of North
he lived out there was a mystery, for ants. These exceptionally strong hills
there was no water in that sector
and no food.
At length, one dark night, between
Something About Birds That Would
Please Jack Miner
We hear of a bird sanctuary in
Natal this is a lesson in creating
beauty where ugliness was before.
Near Maritzburg is a Malley which
was gashed with a disfiguring quarry,,
when the city wanted building block's.
The city became imposing at the ex-
pense of the wooded valley, evheeh
became an eyesore, though eucalyptus,
syringe, and mimosa tried to hide the
gash.
Then Nature took a hand to restore
what man had disfigured. First she
poured into the quarry the brooks
and rills from the neighboring hills
till it filled up. This was not very
good for the trees which had found
a footing in it and by its edges. They
died andhelp up withered arms et
protest.
But the skeleton trees made ideal
roosting places for birds. Now, from
a distance of twenty miles round,
12,000 birds comes to. roost there
every night. White egrets are chief
supporters of this nightly immigra-
tion. A lovely sight they make as
they come in flocks and skeins and
arrow - headed formations outlined
against the sunset sky; and not snowy
winger egrets alone, but the blue -
grey cranes, barons, ibis, and wild
duck.
A soft -finned food -fish of the cod
family, which ranges the seas from
Iceland to the English Channel, is
known as Ling. In size it is from.
four to six feet long. It yields infer-
ior "cod-liver" oil.
have been known to withstand the
severest tropical storms.
In Wupatki, National Monument,
the • intermittent spurts of machine- north•of Flagstaff, Arizona, according
gun -firing there came to our ears a to National Park Service historians,
series of distressed yelping and whin- is believed to be located the oldest
house in the world now occupied by
white people.
A house complete with all the
terrier had, through weakness, per- furniture has been constructed out of
haps, slipped into ong of the well- about 100,000 Boston newspapers by
like craters out there and was unable Mr. Ellis F. Steelman and his Family
to climb out. We formed a party and of Pigeon Cove, Mass. The furniture
went out to investigate.—Yes, he was was formed with rolled newspapers of
there. A pleading blot of white at different sizes, the Ovalis being made
the bottom of a deep shell hole. Soon up of 215 thicknesses of newspapers
the rescue was effected and the little Pasted and folded into layers.
panting body was enfolded in the A house of prefabricated concrete
arms of a Canadian dog -lover. Then slabs can be erected in four hours by
the sudden light of a descending flare the use of a new method recently
revealed something else: a party of perfected.
steel helmeted German soldiers stand- In Eastern Bolivia a native tribe,
ing immovable only a dozen yards the Toborochos, live in the hollow
away; They, too, had come out to trunks of gigantic trees known) as
ing from a ppint somewhere a hun-
dred yards or so off to our right.
We solved the situation at once. The
QUESTIONS COUNTY rescue the terrier. No, shots were bottle trees. Apparently the hollow -
exchanged, but when the lights went in out process does not appear to
COUNCIL'S MOVE out and we started back towards our damage the trees. Entire villages of
trench, a deep, concerned voice called these tree residences are found in the
We believe there will be widespread to us: ' interior of Bolivia.
egret that . the County Council has
again postponed the beginning of a
reforestation program for Huron. The
ostensible reason was the desire to
economize in wartime, but we are un-
ble to accept this as the real reason
in face of the fret that the Council makes enemies kin.
"Tommy!"
"Yes?"
"You wou13. not hurt him?"
"NO"
"coot!"
It was the touch of Nature that
diel not observe this principle through-
out its proceedings last week. We are
afraid the holding up of the reforesta-
tion scheme is not unconnected with
the petty jealousies which too often.
rule in the County Council. Unless the
advocates of reforestation are all
wrong, and we do hot think they are,
Huron is losing money every day be-
cause of lack of sufficient forestation,
and we do not believe Canada's war
effort will be lessened one whit b,v
the prosecution of a reasonable pro-
gram to restore the balance of nature
so rudely disturbed • by the inconsid-
erate destruction of the forests.
Goderich Signal -Star.
Hadrian's Wall is a defensiyle wall
extending .. from the Solway Firth
across England to Wallsend -on -Tyne.
It was built: about A.D. 122 by Had-
rian, a Roman emperor, who is re-
membered for his abolishing of the
farmiung of taxes.
VETERAN CHUCKLES OVER
NAME ON CENOTAPH
In Goderi•
ch to attend the funeral
of an uncle, Charles Mew, of Detroit,
once again walked to the soldiers'
monument . to read his name, cut in
the stone,in the official list of boys
from Huron County killed in action
in the First Great War.
Hestood at attention: for a time,
head bared, then chuckled to himself.
Three years of service in the Great
War flashed through his brain, .but
he did' riot reveal his roarer t7ioughts.
It's a long story and has been told
before. The war records office at
Ottawa reported Mew officially dead,
along with others of the war, the
list being furnished to the local com-
mittee for.inseriptioa on the cenotaph.
About that time Mew, home from
the war, was living with relatives
near Detroit, where he went direct
after demobilized, gradually losing his
Goderich connection. fish.
MITCHELL WOMAN DIES,
AGED 106
Well known in Western Ontario and
oldest resident of Perth County, Mrs.
Mary Ann Avery died Friday at her
home, following an illness of a month.
She was 106.
Mrs. Avery, whose maiden name
was Mary Jeffery, came to Canada
from England in 1855 and settled in
the St. Thomas district .before the
advent of the railway. Later her fam-
ily moved to a farm near Woodham,
in Usborne township.
A year utter arriving in the Do-
minion, Mrs. Avery was married to
Richard Avery, also a native of Dew-
onshire, who died several years ago.
Mrs. Avery came to Mitchell 31 years
ago.
Surviving are three sons, Frank, of
Winnipeg, E. J. Avery, of St. Thomas,
and John, of Weston, Ont., and two
daughters, Mrs. William Edwards and
Miss Mary Jane, both in Mitchell,
Isinglass , often used for the pre-
serving of eggs, is a white, gelatin-
ous substance, derived from the air
bladder of the 'sturgeon and other
SCHOOL CHOIRS BROADCAST NEW WORLD BALLADS
The Canadian Broadcasting.
Commission is, about to enter
upon a novel experiment which
has as its purpose the interesting
of Canadian children in ballads
having to do with the history of
their own country. This Will take
the term of a series of five broad-
casts based on John t4lurray *alb -
bon's recently published book
"New World Ballads". The broad-
casts will take ,place on successive
Fridayevenings beginning Jan-
uary 2,6 between the hours of 7.00
to 7;30 eastern standard time, and
will beheard from eighteen sta.-
Three of the programmes will
originate in Toronto and the bal-
lads willbe illustrated by a group
of girl singers picked from Tor-
onto high schools and singing
under the direction, of Leslie R.
Bell, Director of Music, Ontario
College of Education, University
of Toronto.
The balance of the programme
will originate in Montreal with
ballads sung by the Westhill high
Singers, a group of girls from
Westhill High School. This choir
M under the direction of Irvin
Cooper, Supervisor of Music for
the Protestant Board of School
tiong covering the entire country. Commissioners in the City of
Montreal, and lecturer at McGill
Conservatory of Music. An inter-
esting feature of the experiment
is that school children in Ontario
have been instructed to "listen in''
as part of their home work, and it.
is expected that in other provinces
the same action may be taken.
The attention of the school-
children Of Quebec Province is:
also being drawn by Dr, W. P.
Percival, Director of :Protestant.
Education to these broadcasts in,
the interests of school and com-
munity singing. Upper picture,
shows the Montreal choir, and the,
lower picture the Toronto choir